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Erika Moreno, PhD.
@laprofemoreno.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science.
All opinions are my own.
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Applications close next week (4/7)! New, current, and aspiring departmental leaders are encouraged to join APSA's new Working Group on American govt. and civic education supporting #politicalsciencedepartments. buff.ly/mTMKXKB #APSAWorkingGroup #DepartmentChairs
June 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Join us today at 1 PM ET! Expert panelists gather for a virtual discussion on teaching #AmericanPolitics in times of political uncertainty and crisis, on "Strategies for Teaching American Politics in Turbulent Times.:

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Join our expert panelists for a discussion on teaching American Politics in times of political uncertainty and crisis.
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June 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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1. As almost every research shows, young men have NOT turned to the right — compared to older men. In fact, they moved slightly to the left compared to older men.

Young WOMEN have turned to the left compared to older women.

Recent graph on Trump approval provides good example.
May 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if a US exchange student in a foreign country (say, Turkey?) was imprisoned for six weeks because they wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper it would be a huge domestic story and an international incident.
May 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Yeah baby my country is a “mixed regime” that can be defined as “competitive authoritarianism”
NEW: Chaos at the ICE detention centre in New Jersey.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has been arrested by the DOJ after Members of Congress (apparently being shoved by agents) attempted to include him on a visit.

Baraka has opposed the facility, saying it opened without permits.

(🎥 News 12 New Jersey)
May 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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BREAKING NEWS: Stephen Miller makes clear the Trump regime will suspend habeas corpus—effectively ending American democracy—if the Supreme Court does not rule the way Trump and Miller want.

We are getting close now.
May 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Deadline next week! Apply for the 2025 APSA Fund for #Latino Scholarship by June 15th! The fund encourages and supports the recruitment, retention, and promotion of Latino/a political scientists. politicalsciencenow.com/apsa-2025-fu...
May 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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May 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Should citizens vote in authoritarian elections? In a recent @apsrjournal article, Turkuler Isiksel and Thomas Pepinsky (@tompepinsky) make the case for the democratic value of voting under authoritarianism.
Should We Vote in Authoritarian Elections?
In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Turkuler Isiksel and Thomas B. Pepinsky, "Voting in Authoritarian Elections." Elections are often taken as a defining feature of democratic regimes. Although voting is not the only form of democratic political engagement, we tend to presume that voting makes the regimes we live under fairer, more stable and peaceful, or simply better governed.
politicalsciencenow.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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In Venezuela in 2009, Judge María Afiuni was imprisoned after ruling against government interests. This happened a decade into Chávez's rule, after he had secured control of most institutions. Judicial targeting marked the final stage of democratic collapse.
April 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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If the government can “deport” you for having beliefs they don’t like, none of us is free. Call it what you want, but it sure as shit ain’t democracy.
April 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Raskin: If they can just sweep someone off the street, put them on an airplane, and send them to a torturer’s prison in an authoritarian state like El Salvador without due process… then they could do it to anybody.
April 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Higher ed is facing a quiet crisis. In this OpEd, Demetri L. Morgan & Raquel M. Rall write that boards must step up to protect academic freedom and the future of #highereducation.

Learn more from @insidehighered.com ⤵️
Boards Must Fight for Institutional Independence (opinion)
Defending institutional independence means governing board members need to go on the offensive, Raquel M. Rall and Demetri L. Morgan write.
www.insidehighered.com
April 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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In college, I saw the creed of my fraternity as just that, a creed, something to be recited to pass a test. But now I see it differently and read that words with a broken heart. How far we have strayed in our politics from "The True Gentleman" My latest

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/a-code-of-...
A Code of Honor for a Dishonorable Age
What a forgotten fraternity creed can teach us about leadership today.
adamkinzinger.substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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wow the libertarians finally woke up
April 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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@ucsandiego.bsky.social should follow the Tufts Fletcher faculty recommendation that universities join forces to file a class action suit against this administration.

reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Universities Should Challenge Trump's Speech-Based Deportations of Students in Court [Updated]
The Trump administration has been detaining and trying to deport immigrant and foreign students for their First-Amendment protected speech. That
reason.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Absolutely proud of you all! HUG! So far, 3.1 million protesters counted today — that’s nearly 1% of the U.S. population! Photos are flooding social media everywhere. Still waiting on more numbers to come in.
April 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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ICMYI: reported protests in the US in 2025 are almost certainly outpacing protests during Trump 1.0. In March 2025, we recorded significant growth in the number of cumulative events, and also an uptick in the rate of events (# of protests/week).
April 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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-How Democracies Die (2018)
April 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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The White House has just released a new official statement as the economy crashes:

“The President won his second round matchup of the Senior Club Championship today in Jupiter, FL, and advances to the Championship Round tomorrow.”
April 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM